Copy 2, Volume 5

The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith.

  • Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828.
Date:
1824-1836
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Credit: The English flora / By Sir James Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gen .30. see ond , gen. 469i; 68 MUSCI-PLEUROCARPI-GYMNOSTOMI. | Hedwigia. late acuminated serrated striated, seta very short arcuate at length lateral, capsule not furrowed. Brid. Muse. v. 4. p. 139. Turn. Muse. Hib. p. 109. E. Bot. t. 1237. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 1. P. IL. p. 61. t. 62. Muse. Brit. ed. 2. p. 148. t. 23.— Mnium arcuatum, Dicks. Cr. Fasc. 3. p. 2. t. 7. f. 3.—Hyp- num chrysocomum, Dicks. Cr. Fase. 2. p. 12. Re ah Wet banks and among rocks in alpine districts, rare in fructification. Fr. Winter.—This extremely beautiful moss, so frequent with us, seems to be wholly unknown upon the continent. It is at once distinguishable by its perfectly globose, large and smooth (at length furrowed) capsules, by the flexible stems and rigid /eaves which never become twisted or curled in drying. | 30. Buxpatmia. Linn. Buxbaumia. “Capsule oblique, gibbous. Péristome double : the outer of numerous filiform, erect, jointless teeth ; the inner a plaited mem- branous cone. <Calyptra mitriform, minute. (Muse. Brit. t. 3.) —Named in honour of J. C. Buxbaum, a German botanist and author of a catalogue of plants of the environs of Halle, who first detected this curious plant in Russia. | 1. B. aphylla, Linn. (leafless Buxbaumia). Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1570. Fl. Brit. p. 1148. E. Bot. t. 1596. Hook, in Fl. Lond. cum Ic. Schwaegr. Suppl. v. 1. P. II. p. 63. Muse. Brit. ed. 2. p. 143. t. 22.—B. viridis, Mong. et Nestl. n. 724,— Dill. Muse. t. 68. f. 5. On the ground, generally in woods, very rare: first discovered at Sprowston near Norwich, in a fir plantation. Near Rossyln, Mr. E. Maughan. Wood near Aberdeen, Mr. Jackson. Selkirkshire, near the borders of Peebleshire, Mr. J. Stewart. Georgetown hill, one of the Lomonds, Fifeshire, 1,100 feet above the sea, a very exposed spot, Mr. Arnott. Fr. March.‘The stem, if it may be so called, is reduced to a little conical bulb, clothed with minute scales, which Mr. R. Brown has ascertained to be leaves; from this arises a red tuberculated seta, about an inch high. Apophysis small, cylindrical. Capsule large, ovate, oblique, nearly flat above, convex below, gibbous at the base; at the mouth is a rim or border, which is broken or cleft irregularly. Zid small, conical. . ; Sect. II. Seta or fruitstalk lateral. Pururocarri.! Sussect. I. Mouth of the capsule naked. GYMNOSTOMI. 31. Hepwiera. Hook. (in Humb. Nov. Gen.) Hedwigia. Seta lateral. ‘Mouth of the capsule naked. Calyptra dimi- diate.—Named in honour of the prince of Muscologists, J. G. Hedwig. 1. H. e@stiva, (Summer Hedwigia); stems elongated densely tufted; leaves lanceolate twisted when dry, ‘capsule oval smooth, Jecawh re leaf 4 per ue peti From satvea, the side, and zeersy, fruit, S pocnl of a leas.